Presentation by Henk Vanstappen (PACKED) and Lotte Belice Baltussen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) about the Open Culture Data initiative. Given at the DISH 2013 conference in Rotterdam, 3 December 2013.

1. CHEF’S TABLE 10
How Open Culture Data is opening up cultural
heritage in new ways to new audiences
DISH 2013
Henk Vanstappen | PACKED
Lotte Belice Baltussen | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Rotterdam, 3 December 2013
t: @OpenCultuurData | #opencultuurdata

2. • Who are you?
• Have you opened data yet?
• At the end, we’ll discuss why (not)
Creator: mlebemle (Flickr). License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

3. WHY
PUBLIC MISSION
“For [GLAM] content to be truly accessible, it needs to be where the users
are, embedded in their daily networked lives.” Waibel and Erway, 2009
“No matter who you are,
most of the smartest people work for someone else.” Joy’s Law
STIMULATING COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY

4. NEELIE KROES | VICE-president for the EC digital agenda & Open Data
“I urge cultural institutions to open up
control of their data [...] there is a
wonderful opportunity to show how
cultural material can contribute to
innovation, how it can become a driver of
new developments. Museums, archives
and libraries should not miss it.”

5. OPEN CULTURE DATA CONDITIONS – OPEN ALL THE WAY
• CC0 for metadata
• PDM, CC-BY of CC-BY-SA for content
• Open documentation & communication
• Open standards
Creator: wicker-furniture (Flickr). License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

7. NO WAY BACK
HORIZON REPORT | MUSEUM EDITION, 2012
“it is now the mark—and social responsibility
—of world-class institutions to develop and
share free cultural and educational
resources.”
http://www.nmc.org/news/its-here-horizon-report-2012-museum-edition

8. NO WAY BACK

9. NO WAY BACK

10. NO WAY BACK

11. SERIOUSLY: NO WAY BACK
Seriously

12. WHY WOULD YOU OPEN UP?
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reuse your own open data (e.g. eat your own dog food)
reuse open authorities: e.g. VIAF, DBpedia
provide content for the semantic web
be surprised!
Creator: JAM/Europeana. License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

13. Poolparty Wordpress plugin
enrich your content with data from a thesaurus in skos format.

14. EUROPEANA OPEN CULTURE APP - GLIMWORM:
Semantic Linking of Recognizable Data Entities in a Content Repository

15. THE SURPRISES

16. WHAT OPEN CULTURE DATA CAN DO FOR YOU
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Technical support and advice
Legal advice
Hosting tips
Network of experienced open data providers and developers
(Open Culture Data community (22 orgs!), Open State, Europeana
Creative, Apps 4 Europe, OpenGLAM, Wikimedia)
• Share lesson’s learned*, e.g.:
o Innovator’s lead the way
o We need practical examples
o Open Culture Data = multidisciplinary
o Go from hackathon to challenge
* http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/open-culture-data-opening-glam-data-bottom-up/

17. WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR OPEN CULTURE DATA
• Make the case for open data in your organisation – start at
the top, but don’t forget the bottom-up approach
• Publish your data – from xml / csv to awesome APIs
• Find the communities that want to reuse your data
• Help us measure impact
• Spread the word!

18. BACK TO THE START: WHY (NOT) OPEN DATA?
Nay!
Yay!

19. BONUS ROUND: WHO WANTS TO REUSE THESE APPS?

20. TIJDBALK.NL - ARJAN DEN BOER
National Archives prize

21. MUSE APP - JELLE EN FEMKE VAN DER STER, PETER HENKES
Gold prize

22. HISTAGRAM - RICHARD JONG, FRONTWISE
Silver prize

23. SIMMUSEUM - HAY KRANEN
Bronze prize

24. THANKS!
www.opencultuurdata.be | www.opencultuurdata.nl
@hvanstappen | @lottebelice
@OpenCultuurData
#opencultuurdata